Fornite: Battle Royale does have a number of things going for it that have no doubt helped it reach 800,000 concurrents in just over a month. The game itself is infamously similar to the massively popular battle royale title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, so much so that PUBG's developer Bluehole publicly spoke against the game.

Those similarities, coupled with the fact that Fortnite: Battle Royale both was released as a free-to-play game and launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC simultaneously, seem to have given the colorful take on the genre a bit of an edge.